Mnuchin: Plane request was about national security
Mnuchin said that he canceled his request for the plane after he found another solution for accessing secure communications. Both the flight to Kentucky and the honeymoon request are under review by the Treasury Department's inspector general.

Soon Xbox games might not require full downloads to play
Microsoft has been working on a new feature for Xbox One and Xbox One X that stands to save users a ton of storage space. They also got a glimpse of this new system in order to persuade them to adopt it for the upcoming titles.

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Chrome for desktop, on the other hand, will initiate autoplay if you typically play media on the website you're looking at. That component will pick the promotions to square in view of rules from the business gathering, Coalition for Better Ads.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders: Trump is committed to the border wall
Browning and others said that they had no problem with the president working with Democrats, if that was the only way forward. The wall will come later , we're right now renovating large sections of wall, massive sections, making it brand new.

Defense Secretary Mattis says current transgender troops can re-enlist, for now

Last month, Trump signed a directive that would abandon plans to open the military to transgender recruits unless he is convinced otherwise, would halt the use of federal resources to fund sex reassignment surgical procedures for military personnel come March and ordered Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to decide the fate of now serving transgender troops.

"When less than 1% of Americans are volunteering to join the military, we should welcome all those who are willing and able to serve our country", said Republican Senator John McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. The order gave Mattis the authority to determine if transgender service members now serving in the military would be allowed to stay. Mattis has until February 21 2018 to present a plan to the White House.

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According to the Associated Press, Mattis's memo made clear that "transgender individuals can continue to serve in the military and continue to receive any required medical care".

GLAAD - the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation - called President Trump's ban on transgender people serving in the United States military "a direct attack on transgender Americans". He also said that a ban "may also deprive our military of trained and skilled service members and leave vacancies that may not be easy to fill".

The legislation also requires Mattis to complete his policy review by end of the year and to provide the results to Congress. Under Obama previous year, the Pentagon ended its ban on transgender people serving openly, calling the prohibition outdated. Jack Reed, D-R.I., the ranking Democrat on the committee, and committee members Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, in introducing a bill to thwart the president's plan. This amendment received bipartisan support, however, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has refused to bring it up for a vote during floor debate for the FY2018 National Defense Authorization Act.

Why world hunger has risen for the first time in a decade
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World , 2017 - says that malnutrition is threatening millions across the globe. Overal, the number of chronically hungry people rose to 815 million, or 11 percent of the world's population, in 2016.

McCain was one of 4 co-sponsors of the legislation.

"Transgender service members whose term expires while the (current) guidance is in effect may re-enlist under existing procedures", Manning said.Trump's transgender ban has already sparked several legal challenges. Thousands of courageous transgender Americans love our country enough to risk their lives for it, fight for it, and even die for it, and Congress should honor them and let them serve.

The next step is seeing what other senators sign onto the bill, and whether McConnell is willing to give it a floor vote.